Bill Simmons nails MSU brah's without even knowing it

Clippers fans hate Lakers fans with a passion, but Lakers fans dismiss Clippers fans and take condescending approaches like 'It's cute that you guys support such a joke of a franchise' and 'It's cute that you guys think this is the year that the Clippers won't fall apart,' which drives Clippers fans even crazier than they already are. You know those college cities where the townies detest the rich kids from campus, or a multicollege city where the kids from the less-respected college openly loathe the kids from the well-respected college a few miles away? That's how the Clippers fans feel about the Lakers fans. Pure hatred.

Replace Clippers with Sparty in that paragraph and Lakers with Michigan and tell me that doesn't just fit perfectly.

Tom Harmon's last game: In a 40-0 victory over OSU, he scored scoring three rushing tds, two passing tds, 4 extra points, 3 interceptions and punted 3 times. He was given an standing ovation by the OSU crowd.

avatar symbolizes the entirety of ones fandom. How about, I love Michigan AND hate bucky?

By your own logic since you don't even have an avatar, you don't love Michigan at all.

Tom Harmon's last game: In a 40-0 victory over OSU, he scored scoring three rushing tds, two passing tds, 4 extra points, 3 interceptions and punted 3 times. He was given an standing ovation by the OSU crowd.

"True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty." -Fielding Yost

By your own logic since you don't even have an avatar, you don't love Michigan at all.

That's definitely not my logic. An avatar can say something about the person who puts one up. I choose not to say anything with pictures. You apparently choose to say that you are fixated on OSU failing.

My wife is canadian and developed some friends here in c-bus before i met her. One of her friends tried to get her interested in osu, because that's all they have here (still have problems considering the blue jackets as hockey). Without any animosity my wife referred to him as bucky, now I always forget it's actually supposed to be brutus.

That's a good point. However, the fact of the matter is that the avatar is creative and interesting. Who are you to police avatars? That reminds me of two old mens in the Muppetts cartoons, the critics that sit up in the balcony goofing on everyone else with their holier-than-thou attitudes.

I'm not policing them. I'm not a mod. I have no control over what avatar he chooses. I'm just saying that it is pretty Little Brother-ish to have an avatar that is focused exclusively on another school failing, rather than celebrating your own school. And it's odd for someone with said avatar to ridicule MSU fans for supposedly being obsessed with us.

There's definitely an undercurrent of OSU fixation among some posters here, which I think is worth calling attention to. Witness the constant "Does Terrelle Pryor regret going to OSU" posts.

Sorry, but it is Little Brother-ish. It's not a Michigan avatar. It's an anti-OSU avatar. And it's comical that the OP would use it while claiming, without a trace of irony, that MSU fans are fixated on us.

Tom Harmon's last game: In a 40-0 victory over OSU, he scored scoring three rushing tds, two passing tds, 4 extra points, 3 interceptions and punted 3 times. He was given an standing ovation by the OSU crowd.

I get where you're coming from, but there are some things not meant to be taken completely serious. And while I do like it when people call others out on things they shouldn't be doing, sometimes the classy police does more than they need to.

All eight of them live in one house where they sit around wearing Danny Manning throwback jerseys over their sweaters and spend the entire game debating: "If Ralph Lawler was in an Indie band, which Indie band would it be?"